Ch 13 Memory Improvement

Question 1

Process for meaning

Answer 1

Focus on what the material means

Question 2

Subjective organization

Answer 2

Make up your own organization of information

Question 3

Technical mnemonics

Answer 3

Acronym and acrostics

Question 4

Acronym

Answer 4

Using the first letter of a word to create an easy to be remembered word

Question 5

Acrostic

Answer 5

Using the first letter of words to create an easily remembered sentence

Question 6

Encoding variability

Answer 6

Studying in different conditions

Question 7

Encoding specificity

Answer 7

Remembering is easier when the conditions match the encoding conditions

Question 8

Retrieval practice

Answer 8

Learn by testing yourself

Question 9

Generation effect

Answer 9

Generating your own association for the information being learned

Question 10

Judgment of learning

Answer 10

Your awareness of how much you have learned or mastered

Question 11

Region of proximal learning

Answer 11

Studying the easiest of what we have not learned yet

Question 12

Expanded retrieval practice

Answer 12

You expand the time between retrieval

Question 13

Massed practice

Answer 13

Studying in one chunk of time

Question 14

Distributive practice

Answer 14

Spacing your study over a period of time

Question 15

Spacing effect

Answer 15

More is learned when studying is spaced out over time

Question 16

Mnemonists

Answer 16

People with extraordinary memory that is innate and practiced

Question 17

Collaborative memory

Answer 17

Working with other people to remember information

Question 18

What are the four principles of improving memory?

Answer 18

Process for meaning
Retrieval cue use
Metamemory
Distributive practice